Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs - Couverture rigide

 
9789027259172: Events, Arguments, and Aspects: Topics in the Semantics of Verbs
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 9027259178 ISBN 13 : 9789027259172
Editeur : John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2014

Synopsis

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The verb has often been considered the 'center' of the sentence and has hence always attracted the special attention of the linguist. The present volume collects novel approaches to two classical topics within verbal semantics, namely argument structure and the treatment of time and aspect. The linguistic material covered comes from a broad spectrum of languages including English, German, Danish, Ukrainian, and Australian aboriginal languages; and methods from both cognitive and formal semantics are applied in the analyses presented here. Some of the authors use a variety of event semantics in order to analyze argument structure and aspect whereas others employ ideas coming from object-oriented programming in order to achieve new insights into the way how verbs select their arguments and how events are classified into different types. Both kinds of methods are also used to give accounts of dynamical aspects of semantic interpretation such as coercion and type shifting.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9027259178
ISBN 13 
9789027259172
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
381
Éditeur
Robering Klaus
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Personne responsable
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